Minister Condemns Leftist Obsession With ‘Islamophobia’ After Mosque Murder
28th April 2025
After a man was murdered on Friday, April 25th in a mosque in the south of France, the French Left wants to use the case to denounce a climate that has become ‘dangerous’ for Muslims in France, but the minister of the interior refuses to describe the murder as ‘Islamophobic.’
On the early morning of Friday, April 25th, a Malian man named Aboubakar Cissé was stabbed to death praying in a mosque in La Grande Combe, near Alès, in the Gard department in southern France. The murderer entered the mosque early in the morning and filmed himself killing his victim before fleeing. A refugee in Italy, he has since turned himself in to the police in Pistoia, near Florence.
Since the announcement of the murder, there has been intense debate in the French press about the exact motive of the killer, Olivier Hadzovic, a Frenchman of Bosnian origin. The website Fdesouche reveals that the murderer’s father arrived in France in 2001 with his wife and eleven children. He applied for asylum, which was rejected, but he remained in France after an administrative court ruled that his deportation would be “a disproportionate violation of his right to family life.” Olivier was born in 2004, shortly after his parents arrived in France, and was therefore able to obtain French nationality as being born on French soil. According to the local press, the murderer, who is in his twenties, lives on social welfare benefits, receiving RSA (Revenu de Solidarité Active, or active solidarity income), and spends his days playing video games.